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Best Age-Friendly Places to Retire

The Best Age-Friendly Places to Retire in list is influenced by the World Health Organization’s age-friendly Ventures cities movement and scores are provided by people who live there. Have an opinion? Find your city and leave a review.

Stone Mountain
#51
#51 of 105 Best Places to Retire in United States
6368.0
Georgia

Stone Mountain is a city in DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The population was 5,802 at the 2010 census. Stone Mountain is located in the eastern part of DeKalb County and is a suburb of Atlanta. It lies near to but does not include the geo...

38 reviews
38 reviews
San Diego
#52
#52 of 105 Best Places to Retire in United States
1419516.0
California
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San Diego is a major city in California, United States. It is in San Diego County, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California.  With an estimated population of 1,419,516 as of July 1, 2017, San Diego is the eighth in the United ...

114 reviews
114 reviews
Colorado Springs
#53
#53 of 105 Best Places to Retire in United States
465101.0
Colorado
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Colorado Springs is a home rule municipality that is the largest city by area in Colorado as well as the county seat and the most populous municipality of El Paso County, Colorado, United States. The Colorado Springs Council on Aging has 3 prima...

86 reviews
86 reviews
Worcester
#54
#54 of 105 Best Places to Retire in United States
185877.0
Massachusetts

Worcester pronunciation is a city and the county seat of Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. Named after Worcester, England, as of the 2010 Census the city's population was 181,045, making it the second most populous city in New En...

84 reviews
84 reviews
Springfield
#55
#55 of 105 Best Places to Retire in United States
155032.0
Massachusetts
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Springfield is a city in western New England, and the seat of Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States. Springfield sits on the eastern bank of the Connecticut River near its confluence with three rivers: the western Westfield River, the eas...

42 reviews
42 reviews
Killeen
#56
#56 of 105 Best Places to Retire in United States
127921.0
Texas

Killeen is a city in Bell County, Texas, United States. According to the 2010 census, its population was 127,921, making it the 21st-most populous city in Texas. It is the principal city of the Killeen–Temple–Fort Hood Metropolitan Statistical Are...

49 reviews
49 reviews
Gainesville
#57
#57 of 105 Best Places to Retire in United States
133857.0
Florida

Gainesville is the county seat and largest city in Alachua County, Florida, United States, and the principal city of the Gainesville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). The population of Gainesville in the 2013 US Census estimates wa...

75 reviews
75 reviews
Seattle
#58
#58 of 105 Best Places to Retire in United States
744955.0
Washington
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Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States. It is the seat of King County, Washington. With an estimated 730,000 residents as of 2018, Seattle is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest re...

44 reviews
44 reviews
Pembroke Pines
#59
#59 of 105 Best Places to Retire in United States
170712.0
Florida
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Pembroke Pines is a city in southern Broward County, Florida, United States. Pembroke Pines' current population is estimated at 168,587 as of 2016. The city had a population of 154,750 as of the 2010 census, making it the second-most populous city...

37 reviews
37 reviews
Pittsburgh
#60
#60 of 105 Best Places to Retire in United States
305704.0
Pennsylvania
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Pittsburgh is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County. As of 2017, a total population of 305,704 lives within the city limits, making it the 63rd-largest city in the U.S. The m...

132 reviews
132 reviews
Tallahassee
#61
#61 of 105 Best Places to Retire in United States
191049.0
Florida
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Tallahassee is the capital of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat and only incorporated municipality in Leon County. Tallahassee became the capital of Florida, then the Florida Territory, in 1824. In 2016, the population was 190,8...

116 reviews
116 reviews
Sacramento
#62
#62 of 105 Best Places to Retire in United States
508529.0
California
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Sacramento ( SAK-rə-MEN-toh; Spanish: [sakɾaˈmento]) is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat of Sacramento County. It is at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the northern portion of Californi...

54 reviews
54 reviews
Staten Island
#63
#63 of 105 Best Places to Retire in United States
0.0
New York

Staten Island is one of the five boroughs of New York City in the U.S. state of New York. Located in the southwest portion of the city, Staten Island is the southernmost part of both the city and state of New York, with Conference House Park l...

63 reviews
63 reviews
Amarillo
#64
#64 of 105 Best Places to Retire in United States
199248.0
Texas

Amarillo ( AM-ə-RIL-oh) is the 14th-most populous city in the state of Texas, in the United States. It is also the largest city in the Texas Panhandle, and the seat of Potter County. A portion of the city extends into Randall County. The estimated...

63 reviews
63 reviews
Rochester
#65
#65 of 105 Best Places to Retire in United States
210565.0
New York
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Rochester is a city on the southern shore of Lake Ontario in western New York. With a population of 208,880 residents, Rochester is the seat of Monroe County and the third most populous city in New York state, after New York City and Buffalo. ...

37 reviews
37 reviews
Nashville
#66
#66 of 105 Best Places to Retire in United States
0.0
Tennessee

Nashville is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County. Middle Tennessee Council On Aging: COA strives to ensure that the community values, honors and supports older adults and caregive...

102 reviews
102 reviews
Chicago
#67
#67 of 105 Best Places to Retire in United States
0.0
Illinois
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Chicago is located on the shores of freshwater Lake Michigan, and is the third most populous city in the United States. The Chicago Area Agency on Aging serves as the Area Agency on Aging for the city of Chicago. In that capacity, they admini...

1003 reviews
1003 reviews
San Antonio
#68
#68 of 105 Best Places to Retire in United States
0.0
Texas
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San Antonio, officially the City of San Antonio, is the seventh most populous city in the United States and the second most populous city in both Texas and the Southern United States. Every day in San Antonio, seniors, 60 years of age and old...

717 reviews
717 reviews
Louisville
#69
#69 of 105 Best Places to Retire in United States
0.0
Kentucky
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Louisville is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 29th-most populous city in the United States. It is one of two cities in Kentucky designated as first-class, the other being the state's second-largest city of Lexington. Lou...

51 reviews
51 reviews
Homestead
#70
#70 of 105 Best Places to Retire in United States
69907.0
Florida

Homestead is a city within Miami-Dade County in the U.S. state of Florida, between Biscayne National Park to the east and Everglades National Park to the west. Homestead is primarily a Miami suburb and a major agricultural area. It is a principal ...

50 reviews
50 reviews
Houston
#71
#71 of 105 Best Places to Retire in United States
2313000.0
Texas
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Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the fourth-most populous city in the United States.  The Harris County Area Agency on Aging (HCAAA) is part of a nationwide network coordinating supportive services for the elde...

2891 reviews
2891 reviews
Atlanta
#72
#72 of 105 Best Places to Retire in United States
486290.0
Georgia
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Atlanta is the capital and most populous city of the state of Georgia in the United States. With an estimated 2016 population of 472,522, it is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, home to 5.8 million people and t...

241 reviews
241 reviews
Boca Raton
#73
#73 of 105 Best Places to Retire in United States
98150.0
Florida

Boca Raton (; Spanish: Boca Ratón, pronounced [ˈboka raˈton]) is the southernmost city in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States, first incorporated on August 2, 1924 as "Bocaratone," and then incorporated as "Boca Raton" in 1925. The 2015 popu...

52 reviews
52 reviews
Charlotte
#74
#74 of 105 Best Places to Retire in United States
731424.0
North Carolina

Charlotte is the most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina 1. Centralina Area Agency on Aging: Centralina Area Agency on Aging (AAA) strives to support and enhance the capacity of service and advocacy systems to promote inde...

408 reviews
408 reviews
Wichita
#75
#75 of 105 Best Places to Retire in United States
389255.0
Kansas

Wichita ( WITCH-i-taw) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas. Located in south-central Kansas on the Arkansas River, Wichita is the county seat of Sedgwick County and the principal city of the Wichita metropolitan area whose estimated po...

46 reviews
46 reviews
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